2011 Award Winners

Dancing With The Stars
Volunteer Organization: West Virginia Symphony League
Orchestra: West Virginia Symphony Orchestra

This event paired local celebrities and professional instructors to raise big funds for the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra.

41st Kansas City Symphony Alliance Designers’ Showhouse
Volunteer Organization: Kansas City Symphony Alliance
Orchestra: Kansas City Symphony Orchestra

This event shows how to breathe new life into an existing project and successfully broaden your target audience.

Music Memory
Volunteer Organization: Dallas Symphony Orchestra League
Orchestra: Dallas Symphony Orchestra

A program that gets students excited about classical music and motivated to learn and listen more.

Outreach Collages: Creative Arts Camps
Volunteer Organization: Friends of the Symphony, Symphony Orchestra of Augusta, GA
Orchestra: Symphony Orchestra of Augusta, GA

A program designed to take the joy of music and the arts to children who benefit the most.

The Society of Strings
Volunteer Organization: Oklahoma City Orchestra’s League
Orchestra: Oklahoma City Orchestra

A unique program of music training that targeted adults with little or no previous music training who became powerful advocates for classical music.

2009 Symphony Ball
Volunteer Organization: Jackson Symphony League (MS)
Orchestra: Jackson Symphony Orchestra

Learn how this league hosted a glittering tribute to a grand tradition in their community while conducting the largest fundraiser for their orchestra.

We Are The Music
Volunteer Organization: Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra and Chorus FanFare Group
Orchestra: Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra

This project produced a DVD which covered 700 years of Santa Fe history through the music and dance of its many cultures. This DVD is now part of the music and social curricula in over 85 classrooms.